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The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania said Monday it was recommending the adoption of a severance tax on natural gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale across the state.

The Economic Impacts of the Marcellus Shale From: energy | July 21, 2010 | 63 views Loading... http://EnergyTomorrow.org Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics, shares his new study on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale re

Video of Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics, shares his new study on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale region and explains how a high-development in this region would fuel energy security, job-creation and our economy ov

HARRISBURG, April 3 - The state House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy heard testimony today on imposing a severance tax on natural gas that is extracted in the Marcellus shale formation, according to the subcommittee's chairman, state Rep. Gr

House and Senate leaders say they're confident the General Assembly by Oct. 1 will pass a severance tax on natural gas extracted from the Marcellus shale formation, despite unresolved issues.

Video of Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics and author of a new study on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale region, explains how a Pennsylvania severance tax could reduce capital inflows for developing natural gas product

Pennsylvania sits atop one of the largest natural gas deposits in the world. The Marcellus shale formation could hold enough recoverable natural gas to fuel the nation's gas needs for 19 years. New drilling technology means that drillers are just now star

http://EnergyTomorrow.org Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics and author of a new study on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale region, explains how a Pennsylvania severance tax could reduce capital inflows for developing na

http://EnergyTomorrow.org Based on his recent study, Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics, forecasts the continuation of New York's moratorium on Marcellus natural gas development will cost the state valuable economic opportunities an

Shell, which has its North American headquarters in Houston, bought all of the acreage of East Resources Inc. in the Marcellus shale for $4.7 billion, totaling 650,000 contiguous net acres and more than 1 million acres overall in West Virginia and Pennsyl

The Marcellus Shale boom is accomplishing something that all of Governor Rendell's economic development programs cannot: permanent jobs and more state tax revenue without a dime of taxpayer subsidies. Resisting the calls to tax natural gas producers will

If the General Assembly adopts both proposed exemptions, only one-third of total gas production at a typical Marcellus Shale well would be subject to severance tax, and companies would pay tax for only nine years of the 40-year life of the well. This two-

A blog by Chris Briem that contains many Marcellus Shale entries

During the Marcellus Shale debate, one of the Republican talking points we heard was that if PA's severance tax was too high, or if our environmental regulations were too strict, natural gas drillers would move across the border to Ohio. The theory was that high taxes and high regulatory costs would lead to less drilling, by driving up the cost of production. This was always a silly argument, since less drilling would mean higher prices for gas, and leading to more sustained interest in drilling.